The Professor and the Madman (2019)
Rating: 7.1/10
Duration: 124 min
Genres: Drama, Mystery, Thriller, History,
Director(s): Farhad Safinia,
Description:
Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.
Cast
- Mel Gibson as James Murray
- Eddie Marsan as Muncie
- Natalie Dormer as Eliza Merrett
- Jeremy Irvine as Charles Hall
- Ioan Gruffudd as Henry Bradley
- Lars Brygmann as Max Mueller
- Sean Penn as Dr. William Chester Minor
- David O'Hara as Church
- Steve Coogan as Frederick James Furnivall
- Jennifer Ehle as Ada Murray
- Stephen Dillane as Dr. Richard Brayne
- Anthony Andrews as Benjamin Jowett
- Laurence Fox as Philip Lyttelton Gell
- Brendan Patricks as Winston Churchill
- Adam Fergus as Alfred Minor